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To anyone familiar with the design and operation of electronic measuring equipment the situation involving radar gun testing in Ontario has always been a joke. Any device like this requires an external test against a standard to verify accuracy. A simple internal device test can verify the electronics are functioning but without an external test ...

In one of many seminars I attended over the years, the gentleman who was presenting said "in God we trust, everyone else must provide evidence"
Sadly, the courts take officer's testimony as "evidence"
In the world of metrology, no matter how dismal or serious, from a minor industrial calibration to pharmaceutical calibrations, there must exist ...

I was just told about the CBC report by a co-worker of mine.
I find it funny how two people confirmed what I had said in my earlier post regarding the testing procedure being modified at the request of the "customer" (Ontario)
Note the former OPP officer stating he made the request for this change and the ex employee of Decatur stating they made ...

One thing you can not be sure of is how the insurance companies will look at this.
If he was charged, he was at fault according to police, thus your insurance rate is not affected and his is.
However, if you do not show up and the charges are dropped, the insurance company may decide that the fault was 50/50 and both drivers are faced with a rate ...

OK, so as I understand it, the officer has seven days to file the ticket, if it is not done so within that period, the ticket is kind of nulled.

I see this in a couple of places mentioned as "fatal error" and recall from my conversation I had with a city staff over ten or fifteen years ago, I was trying to pay a ticket but it would not come up on ...

The new A.L.R.P. (Automatic Licence Plate Reader) cars do have the lat and long attached. The system automatically reads your plate as you drive by and runs it through the system. If there are any problems such as expired val tag or the registered owner is suspended, it will squak and you will get pulled over. I would think if you, say, had a ...

Merry Christmas indeed, glad all worked out and lucky you, lol

Stanton wrote:Yes, when defendants have gone to trial.

Thank you for clarifying.

Followup question: have you ever seen a defendant win the case with a video evidence being presented?

It's very infrequent since most defendants don't bother forcing a trial if they feel there's relatively definitive evidence of the offence. The very few times I've seen defendants force a trial when there's video evidence involved people who felt there was a justification for their actions.



OK, thank you both for your comments.

But I am not ...

Yesterday I attended a traffic court in York region.
The process went as you would expect, the prosecutor called each defendant one by one and offered a plea deal and nearly all of them accepted the deal and pleaded guilty.
Near the end of the day the prosecutor asked for a recess to setup some videos and during this time they played dash cam ...

I seem to recall reading transcript of a case where the prosecution argues exactly that, why the can not make a full copy available to everyone asking for it.
Decatur is right, but you can word your request as you have, then you can use it in court to try and justify why you need the manual in its entirety. What differentiates a good attorney from ...

When you put yourself on the stand you open the door to all sorts of questions. So to assume you will be asked one set of questions and not another would be somewhat unrealistic.
The question is, what type of an expert do you consider yourself to be? And assuming the JP agrees with your opinion of you being an expert, can you navigate through the ...

Not all officers are traffic enforcement, so depending on how he got your speed, it could also be the case that he took all your info to pass it along to another officer to issue a ticket. At times they don't even have a ticket book in their cruiser.
If that is the case, then both officers will have to show up at court to testify.
This is a very ...

@Stanton,

Just want to make sure I got this right...

Are you saying that even though the person was not charged for an offence (went to court and charge was dismissed) there is a history on his/her driving record that shows as such?
I understand there is a court record, but that is not what the officer has access to on the side of the road.

He blew a warn and got a 3 day suspension. Because of his age and licence class he got a ticket for having any alcohol in his system at all.



Are you saying that a full G driver with multiple years of driving experience can blow an orange and not get suspended?


No, I am saying that anyone including a full licensed driver who blows his first ...

ynotp wrote:He blew a warn and got a 3 day suspension. Because of his age and licence class he got a ticket for having any alcohol in his system at all.

Are you saying that a full G driver with multiple years of driving experience can blow an orange and not get suspended?

What makes you think there actually is a video evidence?
Unless the officer explicitly mentioned to you that he has you on video, the prosecution does not need to produce such evidence and the officer's testimony will suffice.
Not that long ago there was no dash cams and people did get tickets and were found guilty based on what the officer ...

I can assure you, that book is correct and nothing has changed.
I am a calibration manager by profession and I do work on electronic equipment on a daily basis, all electronic measuring equipment are subject to drift and require regular calibration and adjustments to meet published specs.
The reason that part of the manual was removed is because ...

I just like to thank everyone for their input and advice...

I guess I'll be calling my local councilor, hope he can help.
I too had to chuckle at the "falling rake" story, but it is not something I would do myself.

I always teach my kids to be responsible, I tell them to assume the driver of the car approaching is a very bad one or a careless one ...

OK, this is a very different post from the usual ones we see and I am hoping it will not cost me my account...

I live in a neighbourhood with too many aggresive drivers, lets not name the area or the local police deprtment.

The issue I have is that, although I have personally reported the licence plate of driver who failed to stop for a school ...

She can provide the info to the car owner and stand as a witness and if you do not come forward and resolve the issue, it can reported as a hit and run.
Then the officer will contact you and charge you based on eye witness testimony.
I saw a car back into a car as he was trying to get out of his parking spot, damaged the front end of the other ...

I doubt any officer would pull over a driver for a plate that hardly covers anything, unless he/she committed another offence and has been pulled over for it, then the officer may decide to slap on a second charge as well.
Lets face it, police officers are not out there just to give drivers a hard time, contrary to popular believe, but the do have ...

The first question should be, what were you smoking to transfer plates onto a vehicle without properly registering them with MTO?
Second question, how did your insurance company cover you since they check (or should have) and your plates did not match the vehicle on file?
This is what criminals do on get away stolen vehicles for all kinds of ...

About 15 yrs ago I was involved in a road rage incident.
At the time the other driver had a cell phone and I did not, so he called OPP and filed a complaint, even though he started the entire chain of events, which I won't get into.
He followed me to my workplace and still on the phone reported my location and then left. Few minutes later an ...

On second thought, you are clearly writing some excellent English, seems like you are making a mockery of the justice system by asking for something you don't require to have a fair trial.

Why not just ask for a binary translator and just show up making a lot of beeping sounds?

Canada's two official languages are French and English...you are in ...

A couple points on the original post:

1) Both the crown and the officer were wrong, the maximum find you're looking at under a part 1 prosecution if it goes to trial is $500. The set fine is irrelevant - once it goes to trial the penalty is entirely in the hands of the JP, subject to statutory minimums and maximums - the maximum in this case ...

Two minutes later he came back and asked if I had my ticket, I gave it to him and he said "I go with the last 3 digits, looks like I got the wrong book"
I was not sure what that meant, then he went on to say it is better for you, I said "I'm not sure what that means" playing dumb, this is when he tells me that he does not have his evidence and he ...

This website and Ticketcombat have been great source of information for me and I have benefited a great deal.
I like to thank everyone who has posted and responded to questions and shared information in an effort to help others like myself.
Here is my story trying to help any one else who may decide to read and learn how to proceed with their ...

In case any one is interested or curious, I had my trial today and the JP was a different one today.
This one was much nicer and fair.

OK, so if the officer does not show up you get to walk, which means if you can get his/her testimony/statements nullified officer's presence is irrelevant.
Now, lets assume you ask him/her a question to which he/she provides a wrong answer to, how do you go from there asking the JP to disqualify his/her testimony since he just provided falls ...